My wife's computer is super old, so I recommended she install it because it claims to be the fastest browser due to it's super speedy JavaScript engine, V8 JavaScript Engine . On a five year old laptop with 768MB of RAM and a Pentium processor it runs pretty well. After she installed it, I started using it to surf and it indeed was a lot faster. I kind of already knew this, but the big reason why I fell in love with Chrome this week was not just for it's speed, but for it's extensions . NOTE: To use extensions in Chrome you need to install the dev channel of the browser.

I've been a big fan of FireFox for quite some time now because it's faster than Internet Explorer (from what I've seen, no official benchmarks by me) and it has a huge repository of extensions .

Having said, I'm not abandoning FireFox entirely. I still like it and it's my main browser for development at work (thank you IE Tab which is also available in Chrome) and it still has more extensions than Chrome, but I foresee Chrome extension development exploding very soon.

One other extension available for Chrome is FireBug Lite. I installed it, but don't know if it's really necessary considering the fact that Chrome has it's own client-side development tools. A full fledged FireBug would be neat to have in Chrome or any browser for that matter.

Outside of work, Chrome is my new browser of choice. I still can't believe how fast it is and the slim downed UI is nice too (no toolbars). At first I was a bit annoyed with it, because the only way I could access my bookmarks was via the Bookmark Manager in the tools menu. I quickly discovered CTRL + B shows or hides the bookmarks toolbar and with an Xmarks extension now available for Chrome, I'm in heaven.

The only thing I don't like is I can't use LogMeIn in Chrome in full screen mode, so for now I still use FireFox for LogMeIn.

Maybe with FireFox 3.6 and up it'll become faster than Chrome, but I think the tide of change is coming and it's called Chrome.